Me and my company started preparations since October last year
(2014), We submitted number of proposals and most of proposals were
unsuccessful, we thought we can't make Tanzania celebrate Menstrual hygiene day at the National
level as we were planned, end April some of stakeholders started to give in money
after we tried our last token, when we went for a presentation about Menstrual hygiene day at the
ministry of education.
On 27th May, where everything was done, one of the senior
official at the Ministry denied to sign our letter, this letter was very important
for us to get a police permit and hence move on with marching on 28th May, This
man yell at me saying, " u don't have work to do? why exposing these
secret things? why are u copying western culture? why don't you hire a hall in
a hotel and do these things in privacy? this is non sense, i can't allow" It was so
painful for me, when i think of the time we invested in commemoration, hardship
in searching for sponsors and this last minute this man want to ruin every thing? I
got an idea of skipping this man and went to his boss, i explained everything and
the boss softly asked where is the letter, she signed it and i had only 30 minutes
to rush to police station before they closed the office,We had another hard time
there, since they were about to close the office, i thank God by 6:00pm in the
evening, i handled the police permit.
On 28th May Morning, when i saw people gathering ready for
marching i was super happy, i can't real explain the magnitude of my happiness on that day, because we finally got what we wanted.
I will never blame the man for rejecting to sign our letter,
but he gave us reason on pushing forward till we make sense of menstrual hygiene
day to all Tanzanians.
Never quit, never quit, never quit....
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